If you are a busy web designer or developer, using a CSS framework could speed up your work dramatically and make your task far easier. The CSS frameworks facilitate rapid development, could be used as a foundation in many design projects, and take care of some of most repetitive tasks. Here is a comprehensive list of CSS frameworks, which will give you a head start in your design work – some of them are well known and well documented, while others are used by few, but have their strong points and unique features:

1. 960gsA clean and extensible CSS framework that is HTML5 ready and well documented. It is relatively easy to use, comes with adjustable margins, and 12, 16, and 24 column layouts.

2. YUI 2: Grids CSSA customizable and flexible CSS framework, which comes with four page widths (750px, 950px, 974px, and fluid-width), and more than 1000 layout options. It offers A-grade browser support, self-clearing footer, source-order independent columns, and is easy to use and well documented.

3. BlueprintComes with form styles, print styles, plug-ins, typographic baseline, and easy to customize grid. It also has style sheet for printing and browser CSS reset.

4. BlueTripOriginally developed by combining the best features of other popular CSS frameworks, has clean form styles, cool buttons, print stylesheet, 24-column grid, and adequate typography styles.

5. Elastic CSSAllows for unlimited nesting, fixed width or elastic columns, any number of columns, column overloading, full height blocks, and same height columns. It is simple and compatible with most of the popular web browsers.

6. EasyThis one has many great features such as predefined and structure CSS styles for print and screen, HTML content blocks, solid file organization, and interactive functions.

7. EZ-CSSA cross-browser, very small, and flexible CSS framework that allows users to create multiple columns with any width.

8. TripoliA framework that is cross-browser compatible, simple, and easy to use and install. It allows the designers to reset and rebuild the browser defaults, disable deprecated HTML tags, and build neat HTML code.

9. CleverCSSAn indentation based markup language, which could be used to build structured style sheets.

10. SenCSSThis one does not come with preset grids, but includes fonts, margins, paddings, baseline, list, headers, and blockquotes.

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What about the 1200 pixel Grid System? It's based on the 960gs, but meant for the larger resolutions of this moment. In January 2010 76% of the computers where using a resolution higher than 1024 x 768 px.